Search results for "Human sacrifice search" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • Dubois is renowned both for his dedication, passion, and sacrifice ... motive" of using his spare time to search for human ancestors (Gould ...
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  • and the son whom Abraham offered as a sacrifice to God. ... viewing him as a prophet, and the son of sacrifice. Both Jewish and Islamic ...
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  • to Tengri resulted in the appearance of human beings on the earth. ... By living an upright and respectful life, a human being will keep his world ...
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  • because no such meaning exists, at least to human beings. The word absurd in ... arise out of the contradiction between the human quest for the meaning of ...
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  • After the near-sacrifice of Isaac by Abraham, Sarah died in Hebron ... that Abraham had carried out the sacrifice of Isaac while the two ...
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  • Athens has brought forth and contributed to human life, none, in my opinion ... out the "Hither the victims" sacrifice (hiereia deuro). The ...
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  • struggles against nature and hostile human beings, but never against ... they may equally renounce the world in search of ultimate happiness. However ...
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  • does take us back to one of very earliest human societies. Some claim that ... Subhash Kak, and David Frawley, The search of the cradle of civilization: ...
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  • that a person or group engages in human sacrifice, often accompanied ... understanding that we are all part of one human family, is needed to dispel ...
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  • people; the middle terrace had pits for sacrifice and other offerings, but ... or ritualistic cleanliness; and the sacrifice that the priest performed ...
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  • ideograms. Sending his assistant in search of the source of those bones ... of the Queen, six dog skeletons, sixteen human slave skeletons, and numerous ...
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  • the major BBC television series, The Long Search (1977) while his The World’s ... theophany or a single ultimate focus or sacrifice do not necessarily translate ...
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  • seen to have an active relationship with human individuals and societies ... Uppsala and altered the ancient system of sacrifice practised for centuries ...
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  • , 1908) which satirizes human nature by depicting the transformation ... an Aztec explanation of the necessity of human sacrifice. ...
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  • The Magic Barrel (1958), depict the search for hope and meaning within ... torturously exacerbated by the pathos of human need unabated." ...
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  • Isaac Bashevis Singer, A Little Boy in Search of God, (New York: Doubleday ... quot; (1986), Singer wrote: "When a human kills an animal for food ...
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  • and an analysis of yoga as a concrete search for freedom from human limitations ... Specifically, his search for essentialistic correspondences between ...
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  • move toward naturalism and the rendering of human feelings. An primary example ... step forward from late-Gothic art in the search for a greater sense of naturalism ...
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  • The killing of the god, that is, of his human incarnation, is therefore ... Lévi-Strauss, and his view of the annual sacrifice of the "Year King ...
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  • instead of silk. The act of racing to search for his body in boats gradually ... boat races to commemorate Qu Yuan's sacrifice at the Dragon Boat Festival ...
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  • Sugriva and the Vanara army and begins the search for Sita. ... the deeds of good Brahmins. Rama is born a human to defeat him, thus overcoming ...
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  • religion, and social class. He affirms human solidarity. His poetry expounds ... promoting Sufi ideas. Such travel in search of knowledge was not uncommon ...
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  • Examples of holism can be found throughout human history and in the ... century social scientists who considered human society to be analogous to ...
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  • user-adjustable scale and customized search engines), for convenient ... maps, such as road maps and town plans, sacrifice an amount of accuracy in ...
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  • chickens have often been the victims of human cruelty, for instance in ... Romans breed white chickens in order to sacrifice them to their gods (Hopf 1982). ...
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  • of God and the end of history through his sacrifice on the cross. Schweitzer ... willingly went to the cross not to expiate human sin but to usher in the kingdom. ...
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  • 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep as a sacrifice. There follows a 14-day ... and kings they represent, Solomon offers sacrifice to their deities as well ...
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  • a valuable role in ecosystems and for human beings. ecologically, they ... air pressure can also be detected in the search for prey. ...
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  • to improve their self-dignity as human beings, earned him widespread ... example of treating the Hawaiian lepers as human beings. To this end, several ...
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  • Influenced by classical liberalism and the concepts of democracy, ... stressing the popular connection between sacrifice and female virtue. Her ...
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  • and the modernist play, Six Characters in Search of an Author. This play demonstrates ... to signal a brusque halt in the authors search into the individual conscience ...
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  • she has turned his men back into their human form. Circe obliges, and ... not dare tell his crew of the terrible sacrifice, for fear of ending up ...
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  • and pain were the motivation for all human action, and psychological ... it follows that Bentham did not favor the sacrifice of a few to the benefit ...
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  • solution was to leave his teaching and to search for inner peace through travel ... scholars. He came to understand the human personality as having three ...
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  • #039;s house will never be atoned for by sacrifice or offering." Samuel ... troops begin to desert, so Saul offers a sacrifice. Samuel turns up and castigates ...
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  • the animals left the Ark, and Noah made a sacrifice to God, and God resolved ... Ark corresponded to the dimensions of the human body, which is the body of ...
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  • Islanders traveled to the atoll in search of seabirds and flowers for ... Iroijlaplap, were done using certain fresh human bones, which required a human ...
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  • out on what would be a long and hazardous search to find her. ... husband for the dispensation of grace upon human beings. In spite of this ...
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  • Nilkanth Varni traveled across India and parts of Nepal in search ... funeral pyre), Swaminarayan argued that, as human life was given by God it ...
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  • to lose contact with the world, shed normal human habits and customs, and civilized ... whereby critical thinking faculties of the human mind are bypassed and a type ...
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  • embodied the inexorable finality of death, human attitudes toward him were ... the girl's mother, began a panicked search for her missing child, frantically ...
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  • He was also a Senior Fellow at the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human ... instant gratification" over the self-sacrifice of parenting children: ...
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  • across the range of the civilized human endeavor.” Julius Lipner ... of the rishis (neither quite gods nor human), and creation narratives ...
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  • illuminate the contradictory mysteries of human experience in ways that no ... soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. The poet ...
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  • encountered by the Spanish practiced mass human sacrifice, institutional ... #039; land, three groups departed in the search for routes to the coast. ...
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  • grew out of his spiritual quest and his search for a better society. He ... things, and tapasya, the willingness to sacrifice oneself. He believed that ...
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  • minutes, Lincoln invoked the principles of human equality espoused by the ... death in 1901. Robert Lincoln began a search for the original copy in ...
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  • America, landing on the coast of Yucatán in search of slaves. ... were beings doted with souls, as all other human beings, while the latter ...
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  • The Upanishads are preoccupied with the search for the nature of this ... The Upanishads develop the concept that a human being is recompensed ...
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  • Few concepts in human history have generated as much fascination, ... being that can relate with all aspects of human experience, and has attributes ...
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